It’s impossible and your choice is to either leave the point or lose the friendship

Money was thrown around before,

But the amount thrown around now is in another stratosphere.

All the journalism I’ve seen in the matter is that schools are entering and arms raise where they’re getting billionaire donors and using student money to fund a arms raise of rapidly increasing nil contracts.

It kinda looks like a bubble as schools race to overpay go get records and into the playoffs to get into the SEC or big 10 so they can get TV deals and survive the eventual super conference that will be formed

Need

I’ve been saying it was gonna happen since I moved here and all my hardcore sf friends were mad at me and then it got to a point some left the party and were crying because SF are the Democrats but worse now.

I’m always right with my predictions

It was so easy to predict sf becoming a rural reactionary farmers party

The Irish government shut down a bill to make Fox hunting illegal a week ago because le farmers

That’s what our “left wing” party used as an excuse

I think farmers should accept chickens and shit getting eaten from time to time

IT IS NATURE

I left my previous American university and fled to Europe once history was beginning to be cut and because I’m trans I predicted all this shit happening

University sports were not a problem like this until the 80s when the Reagan administration and supreme court gave way in a ruling with ou vs the NCAA over broadcast rights

After that unis could make insane money off sports

We’re seeing monopolization and the NCAA being destroyed

This is just another result of deregulation and monopolization we’re seeing in America

The NCAA was founded over 100 years ago by the founders of the sport of football and teddy Roosevelt as a regulatory org and then the neoliberal 80s began to kill its power.

Schools 100% could have sports and academics and shit,

But that would require regulation which isn’t gonna happen

This is the economy

But the reality is these kids should have been getting paid before

None of the issues arise from kids getting paid

It’s more so starts in the late 80s when the university of Oklahoma sued the NCAA In supreme court case over university athletics broadcast rights

OU won and since then athletic conferences have been condensing and forming into super leagues trying to rival the NFL

They’re also pushing highschool flag

I think in rural communities you’ll have a lot of kids doing contact

But in urban and suburban you’ll have a mix of flag and contact

YOU CAN GOOGLE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN STUDENT FEES YOURSELF!!!

I DID

IT TAKES 2 SECONDS!

No half will be sports, half will be hedge funds

They do have fees,

And if you re read my comment,

The virginia schools lead in athletics fees because they passed a law where tuition can’t go to sports

Michigan and other schools just spend tuition money on sports

I literally posted an article and the link to the state law from Virginia

No they get paid now

Millions

It’s why for instance jmu needs to keep increasing their “athletics fee”

THE GOAL IS TO TURN THESE SCHOOLS INTO BRANDS/ PROFESSION SPORTS TEAMS.

The elite private schools are hedge funds

The deans of these schools want to condense college football into one or two conferences and have the valuation of their sport franchises become as valuable as NFL teams.

They are sacrificing the quality of the education of their schools to make more money.

I don’t have any bias against any schools, I am mad that the sport of college football is being destroyed and the education thousands of students are getting is being devalued because deans and athletic directors want to make money

This isn’t also the first time something like this has happened to American education

It happened in the 30s when the ivy league and northern schools ditched football in the early 1900s-1930s to favor academics and become hedgefunds.

Then in the 60s the elite southern schools left the football conferences to try to copy harvard and yale and Chicago. IT worked for Tulane, Rice, and Duke.

We’re seeing the result of the 1981 OU vs NCCA Supreme court decision of schools being able to sell college football themselves to TV studios, the consolidation of football programs into super programs, and the result NIL leading to some schools become monopolies in college football. They think they can be the NFL with their football programs worth billions.

Virginia the one state that forces these school to disclose whether or not the money is going to sports, has seen a MASSIVE INCREASE in MANDATORY athletic fees which needs to paid by by EVERY FUCKING STUDENT.

At JMU a public school in Virginia, students are forced to pay $3,000 a year in Athletic fees for the college football program.

The only difference between the schools in virgina, which top the chart in most expensive athletic fees, and other major football schools is that virginia has a law making it illegal for schools to divert tuition to sports so they just charge thousands is mandatory athletic fees.

I’m currently at a top university in Europe that has sporting facilities with multiple fields, a swimming pool, basketball courts, raketball courts, track fields, rugby fields, and a stadium. Student athletic fees for my university is less than a thousand euros.

The $3000 athletic fee is for the football team

It is common knowledge these schools spend tuition money on football. Thats why there were multiple bills proposed and passed in the Virginia state legislator in an attempt to stop it from happening. Instead schools are now doing athletic fees

https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1217/text/SB1217

https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2025/virginia-bill-college-sports-subsidies-student-fees-1234824931/

https://cardinalnews.org/2025/12/18/james-madison-university-generates-more-money-from-mandatory-student-fees-for-athletics-than-any-other-school-in-the-nation/

Russia will own eastern Ukraine, and blackrock will own western

No I am agreeing with you

Stem and buisness Brainrot is also a factor for schools

There is this idea that

Stem and business = job

so people register for those in the highest numbers

and the other academic fields get less people to sign up and get budget cuts

the right and the deans and people donating to these schools want to turn universities into trade schools for stem and business.

But that’s a smaller factor than football. Collegefootball is a major economic factor worth billions not just for these schools but the towns they reside in. so many of these towns the entire economy isn’t the school but college football.

Tldr get mad at the deans not me for wanting to turn their schools into NFL franchises because that’s worth more money than being a school

America moment

I think I made it pretty clear I’m not a fan of how sec and big 10 are treating these schools

It’s less of an issue in the big 12 and acc

Acc is marketing itself as the conference with “high academic standards” and is gonna fall apart in 10 years anyway

Big 12 can’t ever compete

Then college football will go from power 4 to power 2